Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 8/10 [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 20 [200]
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 200 24-48 hours [Estimated Time to 100%]
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2 + Mission Replays
- Missable achievements: None
- Does difficulty affect achievements: Yes
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed: Second controller or co-op friend
- Do cheats affect achievements: Yes [while cheats are active achievements are disabled]
Introduction:
Welcome to Perfect Dark, one of the highlights of the Nintendo 64 and the spiritual sequel to the highly successful Goldeneye. The game is quite long and on the higher difficulties can be very challenging. Perfect Agent difficulty will take time, patience, dedication and skill to complete. The multiplayer is packed full of features and was very advanced for its generation. The game also features a brilliant mode called 'Counter-Operative' where one player is Joanna and the other plays as the bad guys! All the achievements apart from a few should be pretty easy, even for a beginner.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
Those new to Perfect Dark may want to start their campaign on Agent difficulty so they can break in the controls and such. I, however, recommend starting on Special Agent because this way Perfect Agent won’t seem quite so hard (of course you can always just go straight into Perfect Agent if your feeling brave or are familiar with the game)!
If you start on Agent/Special Agent, it would be a good idea to read through the "Crowning Glory" guide and pick up as many of the crowns as possible, also get the miscellaneous achievements like "Act Your Age, Joanna" and "Camera Shy". Some of the other miscellaneous achievements will come naturally.
After your first playthrough, you will then want to complete the game on Perfect Agent difficulty. Make sure you disable auto aim from the game settings before you start this playthrough as this is part of the requirements for "Crowning Glory".
Multiplayer:
Next, you should complete the fist mission on agent in co-op and Counter-Operative mode to obtain the "A Friend Indeed" and "...Who Needs Enemies?" achievements respectively. These are fairly easy and can be done with two controllers or over Live.
Then head to the combat simulator. From here, you will want to get "Golden Days" and "Versatile". Then start the challenges; most of these should cause little issue but as some as the names suggest, they can be quite challenging. Refer to "Prime Target" for more information.
Mop-Up:
Once you are confident you have used every weapon in the game, you will want to go to the firing range and get a bronze with all weapons to get the "Tools of the Trade" achievement and mop up the weapons specialist achievements you still require.
Finally, you will need to replay the levels to attain the final crowns This is where the majority of the time comes into the game. You will likely need to replay levels multiple times especially to get the crowns relating to overall time. Refer to "Crowning Glory" and this guide located HERE for more details.
Conclusion:
Overall, Perfect Dark can be a difficult and time consuming first person shooter but it is certainly one of if not the best FPS of its generation and well worth playing.
[XBA would like to thank Caramel Cardinal and Wilmo X for this Roadmap]